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Booth S1920 – 23 OCTOBER 2022Monnaie de Paris, 11 Quai de Conti, 75006 ParisFor its inaugural participation at Asia Now art fair, Galerie Marguo is pleased to present a solo booth of Korean artist Yang Semine. Comprising of a suite of new paintings from her Dragonfly series, this presentation will showcase Semine’s unique world inspired by nature and our inextricable place in its ecology.The theme of metamorphosis, repetition and difference, is particularly voiced in Yang Semine’s Dragonfly series, a meditation on light, color, weight, volume, and form – the fundamentals of painting. These entomologically inspired compositions likewise begin as digital drawings before they are translated back into the material and organic world, becoming a surface for the artist’s associative and intuitive experimentations that are reflected in the titles of each work.VIP PREVIEW
Thursday 20 October, 2 – 8 pmFriday 21 – Sunday 23 October, 10 – 11 amPUBLIC
Friday 21 October, 11 am – 8 pm
Saturday 22 October, 11 am – 8 pm
Sunday 23 October, 11 am – 6 pm
Gate of Hell, 2022 -
Directed by Tianhao Wu, Yang Semine
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TRANSPARENCY & OBSTRUCTION
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Franck Gautherot, curator and co-director of Le Consortium, Dijon, France, delves deep into Yang Semine’s painting practice and recent works in these words:"For more than two years, Yang Semine has been developing a way of painting in which the dialectic of background/form is played out in the transparency of liquid acrylics diluted in superimposed layers of backgrounds, pushing the subject to the front of the canvas. The transparencies of ink washes from the time of Joseon, the diaphanousness of dragonflies placed in trompe l'oeil on all the flowers of Abraham Mignon - for example - gave her the kick-off for her series known as ‘dragonflies’."
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The insect, simplified to the extreme, purified in a long body and a scribbled head, is the perfect recipient of a decorative treatment applied to the wings: hatching, interlacing, wavy lines, horizontal and vertical lines, vernacular patterns in delicate chinoiserie.— Franck Gautherot
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The dragonflies are extended with inventive variations in which the transparency of the superimposed colored flat areas is organized into a field of attraction on which the motifs find their ease. The construction of the painting involves the inscription of the body and wings of the insect in its stature of a cross with two tangential branches at the vertical edges on a background decorated with more or less defined motifs or color gradations.— Franck Gautherot
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The shift from a cavalier perspective to a multifocal vision displayed in a brand new series of horizontal paintings, highlights - shimmering reflections of the sun on the surface of the water - fish schematized in two triangles joined together, spinning the metaphor of fluidity in an environment of (fresh?) water sometimes ornated with algae.The circles in the water, the wave trains, the flashes of light, accompany the quiet stroll of the fish distributed in odd numbers from left to right and vice versa. The Hawaiian palette, like the colorful shirts of the same geography, displays an optimistic seaside exoticism with a non-illusionistic depth.— Franck Gautherot
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Yang initiates every painting with a digital drawing, which is conceived as the receptacle of what she would call ‘mental images’. These are graphic moments in which all the tools available are used to mimic hand-drawing with the effects of washes, blurring, lines, watercolors. These moments of assisted drawing are born in the memories of paintings crossed everywhere.— Franck Gautherot
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While it may seem ironic to address themes of biodiversity and the natural world from a digital starting point, for Yang Semine, the ability to work quickly, itinerantly, and without producing waste reflects a greater ethos toward practicing a non-extractive and harmonious existence. As we find ourselves in an increasingly technologically dominated and virtually integrated world, Yang’s work can be seen as a formal inquiry into the translation and hybridity of organic and inorganic textural nuances.— Franck Gautherot
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Booth S19, 20 – 23 October, Monnaie de Paris
